Drivers for old nVidia PCI video card?

Discussion in 'Software' started by Molotov256, Jan 17, 2011.

  1. Molotov256

    Molotov256 Private E-2

    Hi all! I picked up an old nVidia PCI video card with 2 DVI ouptuts and installed it into a Win 7 machine. Windows flags it in device manager with "Device could not start (code 10)", but I am able to run one monitor off it. I have also disabled the onboard video output in hopes of resolving conflicts. Ultimately, I'd like it to run 2 monitors in an extended desktop setup.

    I'm assuming I could make the card work properly if I could find drivers for it, but I don't know how to identify the card. There appears to be a model number in the center of the card between the heatsinks which reads 180-50077-0000-A05, and I did find a thread related to that model number HERE. I tried installing the Nvidia GeForce 6800 Ultra 256mb driver as recommended in that thread, but the driver installer still says it was unable to find any compatible hardware. I also tried nVidia's automatic hardware scan on their drivers download website, and it seems to think it's a Quadro series card, but none of the recommended drivers I tried could identify compatible hardware either.

    Now I'm wondering if perhaps the drivers will not install because of the "Device could not start" error in Windows? I'm a bit confuzzled :confused

    Thanks!
     
    Molotov256, Jan 17, 2011
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  2. Molotov256

    Molotov256 Private E-2

    Molotov256, Jan 18, 2011
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  3. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    Hi

    What version of Windows 7 do you have as in 32bit or 64bit?

    I would first run the below as written and attach the log in a notepad file, or look in the data yourself as it should give you the cards version info. As offhand the NV17 series GPUs are the Geforce MX440 series cards and may not have Windows 7 compatible drivers (espeically 64bit).

    actually do attach the log as it will give us the Motherboard make and model as you may also need the Chipset driver to be installed/re-installed before the graphic cards driver.

    Is this install of Windows a very new clean one and all drivers installed ok (so nothing in Device Manager apart from the GFX card with a yellow ! mark)?

    Did this PC have a previous GFX card installed, if so then follow the below to remove all the drivers, but only when you know what version driver you need from Nvidia.

     
    DavidGP, Jan 18, 2011
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